Re: Clarification Of Technique 1.3

Charles,

Thanks for the clarification on what should go in the audio description.

My question though is: When is an audio description required?

For example, the following 2 sites have videos:

Movie trailers: http://www.apple.com/trailers/
TV clips:
http://webcenter.bigbrother2000.aol.com/entertainment/NON/video.html

Do all the videos at these sites require an audio description?

Can anyone suggest a video that does not require an audio description?

Chris


----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles McCathieNevile" <charles@w3.org>
To: "Chris Ridpath" <chris.ridpath@utoronto.ca>
Cc: <love26@gorge.net>; "WAI WCAG List" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Sent: Monday, August 14, 2000 3:08 PM
Subject: Re: Clarification Of Technique 1.3


> Err, the flak isn't at you, it is a statement about the proposal.
Actually,
> whatever priority it is, the author, or some further editor, has to decide
to
> put in description. The user may discover that they have no idea what is
> going on, or they may not even be aware of it.
>
> So I would suggest a simple test is that if the auditory description
allows
> important details to escape notice, then it is inadequate. Reading the
> transcript of this may be enough for someone who knows the video itself.
>
> As Geoff said, description need not be enormous, but does need to convey
what
> the video conveys. In the example used earlier of Sinead O'Connor, an
opening
> description of how it looks "Sinead O'Connor, head shaved, sings, visible
> only from the neck up" and at the critical moment "she sheds a single
> tear" may suffice. If a teacher were to use the video to exlain lighting
> effects, (under the "fair use" provisions of international copyright
> treaties) it would be reasonable to expect them to add the relevant
> commentary, which is in fact what one would expect them to add in a
classroom
> situation anyway.
>
> As an alternative consider the stage directions given for most plays - a
few
> lines to set a scene, a few key details. Not often enough done at the
moment,
> but hardly a gargantuan task.
>
> Charles McCN
>
> On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, Chris Ridpath wrote:
>
>   "Instead I think that for practical reasons we should change this from a
>   priority 1 to a priority 2."
>
>   I knew I was going to catch flack for this proposal but thought it
needed to
>   be said.
>
>   If we leave it as a priority 1 then we're in the position of letting the
>   user decide if the video content requires a synchronized audio
description.
>   So when is an audio description required?
>
>   a) The a/v presentation itself is important to the user's well being.
>   b) The a/v presentation itself is important to the culture.
>   c) The audio track does not adequately describe the video.
>   d) Other suggestions??
>
>   Can anyone suggest a site that has an synched audio description for an
a/v
>   presentation?
>
>   Chris
>
>
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: "William Loughborough" <love26@gorge.net>
>   To: "Charles McCathieNevile" <charles@w3.org>
>   Cc: "Chris Ridpath" <chris.ridpath@utoronto.ca>; "Wendy A Chisholm"
>   <wendy@w3.org>; "WAI WCAG List" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>;
<geoff_freed@wgbh.org>
>   Sent: Monday, August 14, 2000 12:13 PM
>   Subject: Re: Clarification Of Technique 1.3
>
>
>   > CMcCN: "Hmmm. I am absolutely opposed to this reasoning"
>   >
>   > WL: I second the notion. Just because there's a huge body of
>   > inaccessible material is no excuse for condoning it.
>   >
>   > --
>   > Love.
>   >             ACCESSIBILITY IS RIGHT - NOT PRIVILEGE
>   > http://dicomp.pair.com
>   >
>
>
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